Puppet users - Jan 2008 - Where to store custom providers?

Hi,

While i''ve read the wiki page on development of custom providers (
http://www.reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/ProviderDevelopment), i cannot
find information on where the custom provider''s source file should be
located.  My little provider works fine if i copy it to
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/provider/package
but i''d prefer to keep that in tact from the original install.  Where
should
this go?  Does puppet rely on a config variable to locate these?

i''m not (yet) using puppetmaster, just running
''puppet'' directly.  I''m using
puppet version 0.23.2, installed from the tarball.  Also, is this changing
in 0.24 with the new plugin handling?

thanks in advance!

rich


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Rich Liebling schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> While i''ve read the wiki page on development of custom providers 
> (http://www.reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/ProviderDevelopment 
> <http://www.reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/ProviderDevelopment>),
i
> cannot find information on where the custom provider''s source file
> should be located.  My little provider works fine if i copy it to 
> /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/provider/package
> but i''d prefer to keep that in tact from the original install. 
Where
> should this go?  Does puppet rely on a config variable to locate these?
> 
> i''m not (yet) using puppetmaster, just running
''puppet'' directly.  I''m
> using puppet version 0.23.2, installed from the tarball.  Also, is this 
> changing in 0.24 with the new plugin handling?
you can just store it into any directory with the right structure and 
set the RUBY_LIB environment variable to point to this.

With plugins I would recommend heartily to use pluginsync for handling 
modules.



Regards, DavidS